Published Jul 17, 2009 at 2:15 PM

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The owner of a Subway restaurant in San Francisco realized he was not making ends meat off the few hundred people who regularly visited his restaurant to grab a meatball sub and a pickle.

You could say he was a Lee in a hard place and he needed to make a change. He thought long and hard about what he could do and suddenly, as if someone had hooked him up to an IV full of Viagra, inspiration struck him.

"Millions of people visit adult-related websites every month whereas only a few hundred visited my restaurant," he said. "I thought, why shouldn't I make money from the Internet? I can get into and make money in the industry instead of the high costs of running the restaurant business compared to running an on line adult business?"

Lee decided to pack up his relish, neatly tuck away his meat and retire his hair net and leave the food industry. Instead he started a new career in the adult entertainment video industry.

"With the recession going on, people are spending less on outdoor activities and more on indoor activities like computer and T.V. entertainment," he said. "The on line adult industry is recession proof."

Lee produces amateur, unedited footage of adults locally and internationally, available on his new Web site (which we won't promote since we are trying to be a family site).

He needed to do his research before he decided exactly which direction to go.

"I just want to see real unedited amateur models from around the world," he said. "I got tired of seeing the same pro models today in every adult DVD."

So Lee focused on the type of entertainment that he felt was lacking in the adult video scene to help turn one potential sad recession story into a huge success, of sorts.